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The Media's Neglect of Family Issues |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Cheryl Wetzstein |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,422 Words, 8,085 Characters |
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The following article first appeared as a speech at the Twenty-first World Media Conference and was delivered on April 25, 2004, in Washington, D.C.
If we were ever bombed back to the Stone Age, the first institution that would revive is the family, because sooner or later men and women would want to pair off and love each other and make a new generation. They would do this before they elected a president or figured out what coins to give each other. So family to me is where it starts, where it ends. It is the ground level of society; it is the ground zero of our existence. Family ties us to the past, to the present, to the future.
Now, you all knew that already. But let's see how much you actually know about the family. I'm going to name four trends; two are going up, two ar...
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...y move really slowly, and they may not look like much. Hey, it's frozen ice over there. But, actually, glaciers sculpted the Rocky Mountains. Glaciers dug the Great Lakes, which now contain 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Glaciers are really important. I think family trends shape history, shape civilizations. We shouldn't underestimate their importance.
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